Workforce development is becoming a higher priority for government, both as a means of addressing social exclusion and raising competitiveness. However there is limited evidence of the contribution of training to the success of individual firms and even less evidence of the impact of such...

Demonstrates the role of national public policy in reinforcing economic divisions between regions in the UK. In this study, entrepreneurship is measured by the birth rate of new firms. Using Peter Johnson's shift-square technique of separately analyzing structural factors and fertility factors...